Russia has launched a wave of large-scale strikes in Kiev and across Ukraine, causing destruction and wounding civilians, officials said Monday morning, as Moscow prepares for Victory Day. At least five people were injured in Russian strikes on Kiev, Ukrainian officials said, while Russian rockets set fire to a food warehouse in the Black Sea city of Odessa, and explosions were reported in several other regions of Ukraine. The new attacks come as Moscow prepares for Tuesday’s Victory Parade, a key anniversary of President Vladimir Putin evoking the spirit of the Soviet army that defeated Nazi German forces to declare Russia victorious over Ukraine, which he claims is in the grip of a new incarnation. Nazism

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07:32At least five people were injured in Russian strikes on Kiev, city authorities said on Monday morning, as Moscow launched another large-scale attack on Ukraine a day before Victory Day, Reuters reported.

​h2: A brief summary of recent events:

• Did the Patriot system shoot down a Russian hypersonic missile? Americans think so / What this means for the Pentagon. While the Patriot system is successful against ballistic missiles, its ability to stop air-launched hypersonic missiles was purely theoretical until last week, CNN reported. According to the source, the Ukrainian intercept demonstrated this capability in the real world — something the Pentagon viewed as a serious development.
• Wagner, ‘a shadow of what once was’: Security expert on Prigozhin’s rage. “Wagner is a shadow of what he once was. His video is a true expression of the degree of desperation. They are one of the few ways to contact Putin, given that he has no direct line. But let’s be honest, he made similar threats to leave in the past and did not follow through,” says analyst Mark Galeotti for the Kyiv Independent.
• Analysis: Wagner’s boss, Prigozhin, acts according to the wishes of his boss. Wagner’s manager Yevgeny Prigozhin serves only one master – Russian President Vladimir Putin. Everything he says about Bakhmut must be understood in this context. On Friday, he threatened to withdraw his troops, accusing Putin’s defense chiefs of leaving his fighters without ammunition.
• Ukraine has created the basis for a new era of war — and artificial intelligence can defeat it. The war in Ukraine has moved drones from the next frontier of parcel delivery to the pinnacle of military technology, and the rapid development of artificial intelligence will further accelerate the situation.
• Russian security forces prevented an attempt by Ukrainian special services to attack a military airfield in central Russia with the help of drones carrying explosives, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Sunday.
• Czech President Petr Pavel – a retired general who used to be NATO’s chief military adviser – privately warned Ukrainian leaders that a hasty counteroffensive could turn into a disaster, The Guardian writes.
• Russia is trying to exhaust Ukraine’s air defense. Russian forces are trying to paralyze Ukraine’s air defense system, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military said in an interview on Sunday, as quoted by CNN. “The Russians are trying to check and find out where the air defense systems are located.”
• Russia found itself in a situation it had not been in for 25 years. What are the causes of this serious crisis?

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